Bryan Betts

Making server decisions for hybrid IT

Bryan Betts 9 July 2020 No Comments

If you think hybrid IT renders your server knowledge obsolete, think again

How hybrid IT changes your data journey

Bryan Betts 7 July 2020 No Comments

Hybrid IT drives a shift in storage thinking from capacity to service

Are you ready to pay the ‘mental debts’ of Covid-19?

Bryan Betts 5 July 2020 No Comments

Analyst Opinion It’s easy to predict many of the pains that are going to hit business as the UK attempts to follow its neighbours in re-opening from lockdown. Businesses face…

AI without tears: the drive for automation and self-service

Bryan Betts 28 June 2020 No Comments

Analyst Opinion In the post-pandemic, post-Brexit world, businesses of all sorts face a range of new challenges – and many will be wondering if AI-based automation could help them win…

Can integrated systems help build hybrid IT?

Bryan Betts 16 June 2020 No Comments

Things to know when planning your hybrid future

How Covid-19 can sicken your AI apps too

Bryan Betts 1 June 2020 No Comments

Analyst Opinion AI might not be the first thing you think of when you start listing the impacts of the Coronavirus lockdown, but the Covid-19 crisis is having effects far…

AI in Industry: The Myths and Reality

Bryan Betts 5 May 2020 No Comments

Machine Learning as a key enabler of next-generation industry

Outsourcing: a clear look at a cloudy subject

Bryan Betts 18 March 2020 No Comments

Analyst Opinion “Wasn’t cloud just another name for outsourcing back then?” joked another guest in a recent briefing, as our host explained just how long ago he’d joined his company’s…

AI in industry: the hype, the reality, and the unavoidable opportunity

Bryan Betts 8 March 2020 No Comments

But IT should beware of overcoming AI-wash only to fall victim to ML-sprawl

Consent and GDPR: get the basics right!

Bryan Betts 24 January 2020 No Comments

Analyst Opinion Why do companies find it so hard to get their heads around even the basics of GDPR compliance? I’m not even thinking here of techie stuff like not…

For business AI, focus on psychology, not technology

Bryan Betts 19 January 2020 No Comments

Analyst Opinion There’s no doubt now that AI works, and it can work very well indeed – as a technology, at least. And as one of our recent research projects…

Today’s hybrid clouds look more closed than open

Bryan Betts 2 January 2020 No Comments

Analyst Opinion We’ve had convergence towards hybrid clouds and ‘universal’ applications, but now we are seeing divergence towards different cloud platforms, each offering its own flavour of interoperability. What’s going…

Kubernetes catches up with operational reality

Bryan Betts 16 November 2019 No Comments

Analyst Opinion With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future, are cracks already starting to show? Well, not exactly – but if I could pull…

HCI and Hybrid Cloud

Bryan Betts 11 November 2019 No Comments

Will HCI be part of the answer or part of the problem?

The real value of NVMe is end-to-end

Bryan Betts 17 September 2019 No Comments

Analyst Blog Although much is made of NVMe’s role as the modern successor to SAS and SATA, in truth it is a lot more than that. Yes, it is a…

Reboot your future

Bryan Betts 28 August 2019 No Comments

Shaping a new multi-cloud solution

Threat vs trust: the overlooked power of words

Bryan Betts 10 July 2019 No Comments

Analyst Opinion Words have power – in particular, your choice of words modifies how your readers or listeners react to what you write or say. Politicians do this sort of…

Growing fast, OpenStack shakes off old misconceptions

Bryan Betts 9 July 2019 No Comments

Analyst opinion One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new name for the OpenStack users and friends conferences – in Denver was how many people…

Hard drives that do their own data processing

Bryan Betts 11 June 2019 No Comments

Analyst opinion It’s getting hard these days to find places where container technology doesn’t feature, but in a hard drive? Yet that’s what is being explored in one of the…

Cybersecurity needs both psychologists and generals

Bryan Betts 3 June 2019 No Comments

Analyst opinion Many cybersecurity professionals like military analogies. Indeed, some security pros are ex-military. But after a recent security exercise involving IBM’s new lorry-mounted SOC (security operations centre), I found…

Taking vSphere into the future

Bryan Betts 3 June 2019 No Comments

Which route – Converged, Hyper-converged or DIY?

Simplifying Multi-Cloud Service Delivery

Bryan Betts 13 February 2019 No Comments

The emerging role of the Cloud Services Marketplace

Six months on, GDPR is a qualified success

Bryan Betts 17 January 2019 No Comments

Analyst opinion Anyone hoping that we would by now have greater clarity on GDPR will have been sadly disappointed. Large swathes of the Regulation have yet to be tested in…

Don’t ignore the complexity of hybrid multi-cloud

Bryan Betts 21 November 2018 No Comments

Analyst opinion Many vendors will argue that moving to cloud brings consistency and simplicity, thanks to service-based delivery models, application access via standard Web browsers and so on. It’s rarely…